Pluriel

University platform for research on Islam

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of European
Catholic
Universities

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Federation
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Lamia Kenoussi

PhD Student in Classical Studies – Archeology, in joint supervision between the University of Strasbourg and the Humboldt University (Berlin)

Her research interests :

The study of the occupation of the territories of northwestern Arabia and southern Jordan, as well as parts of the Negev and Sinai, between the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age, through archaeology and historical/textual sources.

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Université catholique de Lyon - France

Islam and Otherness: Contextualizations, Transformations, and Influences

From a cross-section of dogmas, discourses, doctrines and reference texts, the contributions aim to examine, from a specific angle of approach (philosophical, theological, political, religious, anthropological, historical), the plurality of forms, places and angles of thought that make it possible to consider the normative values that govern the relationship with the other.

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From Lavigerie to PISAI: The Institutional History of the Missionaries of Africa’s Engagement with Islam

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Maurice Borrmans and the Crisis of Muslim-Christian Dialogue. Islamology in Question?

  • Florence Javel

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Islam and Muslims. Doctrines, Schools of Thought, and Current Trends

  • Michel Younès

Publication date: April 16, 2026. Islam, as a historical, religious, and civilizational reality, is difficult to define. It can be perceived as a form of political governance, an expression of fait...

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Maurice Borrmans (1925-2017), an Islamologist Defending Muslim-Christian Dialogue

  • Florence Javel

On 19 February 2026, in the Maurice Borrmans Library of the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome, Florence Javel, who holds a PhD in theology from the Catholic Univer...

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Inaugural Lecture for the Chair in Mediterranean Studies, Religions and Societies

  • Dominique Avon

Lecture given by Professor Dominique Avon on October 13, 2025, at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI).

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God Is with Us: How Islam and Judaism Justify Violence

  • Haoues Seniguer

Long before October 7, 2023—and even more so since—certain politicized strands of Judaism and Islam have been creating conditions that legitimize, escalate, and sacralize violence in God’s na...

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Muhammad Through the Historians’ Lens

  • Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi

Co-edited by Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi and John Tolan As Islam’s founding prophet, Muhammad stands among history’s most transformative figures, shaping both East and West. Revered by mil...

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The Foundations of Arabic Grammatical Theory

Cairo. In a lecture delivered in Arabic on Saturday, January 25, 2025, at the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO) in Cairo, Professor Ramzi Baalbaki, holder of the Chair of Arabic...